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yallerdawg

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8. What about "Pessimistic Optimism"?
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:49 PM
Oct 2015

"Hope for the best, plan for the worst"?

Can an optimist ever be disappointed?

Or do they really cheerfully turn lemons into lemonade? And are never disappointed?


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